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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Amendments Nos. 54 and 55 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Amendment No. 56 was ruled out of order.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: You and me both.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: How stands the amendment?

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Amendments Nos. 61 and 62 are related and may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Birth Registration (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Jack Chambers, for attending. The foreign births register is a particular register held by the Department of Foreign Affairs and is also known as the citizenship by descent register. Its normal use is in the context of passports being claimed by people who are perhaps the children of Irish citizens living abroad, and it is the method by which they...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Birth Registration (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I really appreciate the Minister of State's reply. An Irish passport is a precious document and there should be no shortcuts in applying for it for people who are abroad and probably already have a passport of the country in which they live. Where a British citizen is seeking an Irish passport on the basis of descent, for example, that is a reasonable proposition. The case I have outlined...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Birth Registration (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Bodies (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: As someone about to undergo my patent examinations, I am interested in the Minister of State's answer.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the students from Dalkey School Project in Dún Laoghaire. They are guests of Senator Barry Ward and they are very welcome to the Seanad. I welcome the Minister of State to the House.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have come in here on many occasions and advocated for access to fertility. I speak ad nauseam, probably, about surrogacy, but also noting the fact that people with disabilities need access to surrogacy. It has been the consistent theme I have had with the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, as we bring through the AHR Bill. That comes from and is prompted in me by the extraordinary work of Selina...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: We should all declare our agenda.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I thought for a horrible moment I would not get a chance. I have heard both men and women represented here today. When we look at the Constitution, we must consider that it is the overarching document by which the Supreme Court has to make decisions in the interpretation of legislation. Therefore, any legislation that goes through this House gets the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Too many for all of us. I sit on the housing committee and the children committee. I can tell the Senator that many an NGO has come in and absolutely torn the Government apart because that is democracy. In fact, we fund them to do it at times in order to point out where our deficiencies are. The idea that their loyalty or “Yes” votes can be bought or coerced is one that I...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I will be voting a very strong "Yes" to this amendment to the Constitution and will do so with a very glad heart. I believe that the description of women as set out is dated and is not reflective of an inclusive modern Ireland and of how care and duties in families are reflected in a modern Ireland. Let us look at what a "No" vote would do. A "No" vote would leave it in there - a piece of...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Minister should go back to the bit where I was right.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I hear what everybody is saying and I very much respect the emotion that is involved. I stand here as a married person whose family is not included in this amendment, so it is not without its boundary. I think it is important that we keep the debate at an academic level. We are Senators, and it is important that the debate is not too personalised and that we do it like that. However, I...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Tomorrow.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Céim an Choiste ordaithe don Chéadaoin, 23 Eanáir 2024. Committee Stage ordered for Wednesday, 23 January 2024.

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am grateful to be able to debate this legislation to amend our Constitution. It is an extraordinary privilege to be in the Seanad and to be able to speak to it. I do not believe that this article has inhibited me at any point in my life. I need to say that. I do not believe it needs to be removed because it has been a blockage to me. However, in the past, it has led to assumptions or...